The victim of the cyber attack was a huge database containing individual names, nicknames and identifiers that Facebook assigned to each user, birthdates, location information, and in some cases also email addresses, phone numbers, and biographical data.
User data was stolen from 106 countries around the world. Among them are 32 million Americans, 11 million people are in Great Britain, and also approximately 2.7 million Poles.
The data is available on one of the hacking forums. Can be used by criminals to impersonate other people and & nbspnp. lug.
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Dropouts should be especially careful now, as they are vulnerable to attacks by fraudsters.
“Due to the risk situation that may arise for Facebook users, the possibility of receiving spam for marketing purposes. Users should also be careful when using services that require authentication with a phone number or email address in the event that third parties try to access them,” notes the Office for Personal Data Protection .
With your private information, fraudsters can adapt their tactics and make it more effective. By knowing where we live and work, criminals can easily find their victims on social profiles and try to extort money, for example pretending to be friends.
People whose phone numbers have become publicly available can also expect a massive attack by intrusive telemarketers. Although in theory, after implementing GDPR regulations these calls should end, as soon as we ask that our number be removed from & nbspbase, this method may not be practically effective, we are writing about & nbspmoney.pl about & nbspmoney.pl .
The office is investigating the matter
According to Facebook, the data that the hacker posted is the same information that was leaked in & nbsp2019. Previously, it was simply not available to the public.
“This is old data, we announced earlier in & nbsp2019. We found this issue and fixed it in & nbspsugust 2019” – reported on Facebook social media representatives.
According to the Personal Data Protection Office, the data leak is being investigated by the Irish office responsible for the protection of personal data, which is Facebook’s European headquarters located in Ireland.
“Over the weekend, the Irish Supervisory Authority (Data Protection Committee – DPC) attempted to prove the facts of the situation. The authority’s work in this case is still continuing. The DPC has not received any satisfactory answer from & nbspFacebook” – said Adam Sanuki, UODO spokesman.
